Read a file in ph

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Nguyen Tan Dat 2, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Stan k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. NTulip: I see nothing in the feature lists or documentation of either to suggest that they can read from Excel files. Any examples? Dinah, you're right. I made the appropriate changes in my response. PHPExcel has always been able to read and to write a range of spreadsheet formats. Luis Melgratti Luis Melgratti It not working for me i have php 5.

Same here hRaval, did u find any solution for it later?? Hey guys, I fixed a few things to make it compatible with recent PHP 5 versions: pastebin. PHPExcel can handle a lot of different formats including. Show 2 more comments. Tip: The fread and the fclose functions will be explained below. The first parameter of fread contains the name of the file to read from and the second parameter specifies the maximum number of bytes to read.

It's a good programming practice to close all files after you have finished with them. You don't want an open file running around on your server taking up resources!

The fclose requires the name of the file or a variable that holds the filename we want to close:. Note: After a call to the fgets function, the file pointer has moved to the next line. The feof function checks if the "end-of-file" EOF has been reached. The feof function is useful for looping through data of unknown length. The example below reads the "webdictionary. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

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